The Keir Collection of Islamic Art at the Dallas Museum of Art Review

An extended loan helps visitors understand the role Muslim cultures have played in world art.

By

Lee Lawrence

May 2, 2017 3:39 pm ET

Dallas

In the spring of 2014, crates arriving from London at the Dallas Museum of Art marked the start of a 15-year, renewable loan of almost 2,000 objects. Made between the seventh and the 19th centuries in Muslim societies from the Mediterranean to India, they include ceramics with glazes of deep blue-green and lustrous gold; illuminated...